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¿Qué ha pasado con nuestras ciudades (y cómo podemos recuperarlas)?Cada vez más gente siente que su ciudad se ha vuelto un territorio hostil. Casas que no hay manera de habitar, precios que no es posible pagar, espacios que ya no se pueden compartir, incluso conversaciones que ya no somos capaces de mantener. Las ciudades estan dejando de ser comunidades de encuentro entre distintos para convertirse en productos. Las administraciones, obsesionadas por el exito internacional, diseñan estrategias y marcas para atraer turistas e inversores y se olvidan de mejorar el dia a dia de los vecinos, fomentar un desarrollo economico mas justo y facilitar una cultura accesible. La vida urbana se ve afectada, ademas, por el desdoblamiento de la realidad entre lo digital y lo fisico, la polarizacion, la soledad y el envejecimiento de la poblacion y la crisis medioambiental.Antes todo esto era ciudad es un analisis critico de los procesos que estan llevando nuestras urbes a avanzar por esta deriva. Pero es algo mas, quiza mucho mas: un libro inconformista, valiente y hasta rebelde que propone ideas y acciones capaces de transformar y mejorar los lugares que habitamos. En un momento en que el mundo parece inmerso en un temporal autoritario, nacionalista e individualista, este ensayo defiende la necesidad de luchar con firmeza y esperanza en defensa de esa forma de encontrarnos y relacionarnos que llamamos ciudad.

Fascinating and elegantly written, Master & Cartographer introduces a largely forgotten naval hero of Stuart England N.A.M. Rodger, author of The Safeguard of the Sea, The Command of the Ocean and The Price of VictoryThis is a book about maps and map-making, about power and class, and about war, seamanship and navigation. It is a study of wealth, patronage and money, in an England riven by religious disorder and toxic politics.Greenvile Collins (164394) was a naval warrant officer who caught the attention of a King. His seagoing career took him from Patagonia to the Arctic, into battles against Dutch men of war and Barbary corsairs, and to the slave markets and Silk Road ports of the Mediterranean. A scientific navigator, his professional drive drew him to Shetland, the Scilly Isles and all points in between, as he undertook the most ambitious hydrographic survey of the British coastline yet attempted.Then, even as he laboured to complete his monumental sea atlas, he was summoned yet again to the service of the Crown. The Glorious Revolution was a campaign of crisis for a deeply conflicted Royal Navy, and a crucial test of loyalty for Greenvile Collins and his fellow officers.Greenvile Collins emerges as a sympathetic hero, who served three kings while compiling invaluable charts and navigational data for his fellow sailors. Not since Patrick OBrians Aubrey-Maturin novels have I enjoyed such rollicking armchair adventures at sea Dava Sobel, author of Longitude

Fresh, immediate, and full of vim Peter MarrenCarry this book with you. Watch, listen, observe, enjoy. Esther WoolfsonIn Wild Pavements, naturalist Amanda Tuke shares her delight in the overlooked and underappreciated wildlife in our UK cities, finds the people who care for it, takes groups out to enjoy it and explores what the current thinking in ecology and conservation means for the future of urban nature.Join Amanda as she explores London from the City out to the suburbs and visits Liverpool, Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff, Sheffield, Aberdeen and other cities in the British Isles, exploring the diversity of our urban nature and the surprising places you can find it.From wild bees living on a canal bank and black redstarts nesting in Londons Oxford Street, to rare plants in pavement cracks and new fish life in trolley-filled urban rivers, her discoveries are there for anyone to enjoy. Noticing the wild world around you may just change the way you think about our cities for good.